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Evolution and the Criminal
The Nineteenth-Century Obsession with Atavism
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North America's First Forensic Scientists
“Not Sherlock Holmes.
Mar 10
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North America’s First Forensic Laboratories
The first public forensic laboratory in the world was founded in Lyon, France, in 1910 by Edmund Locard (a giant in the history of forensics) in the…
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Galvanism and the Criminal Body
“I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet...
Oct 28, 2025
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Humans, Animals, and the Origins of Forensic Hair Examination
“If a hair submitted for examination be not human, from what animal has it been derived?” Charles Meymott Tidy, Legal Medicine, 1892
Sep 17, 2025
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Nineteenth-century Toxicology
“Fear nothing; your crime will go unpunished.
Jan 21, 2024
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An Obsession with Identity
Jan 20, 2024
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